Databases with Cases
One strategy for finding business cases is to search databases known to have case studies. All of the databases listed below include case studies.
More databases for searching are listed on the Business Case Studies Research Guide.
- ProQuest One Business This link opens in a new window
ProQuest One Business combines multiple ProQuest business information databases including ABI-Inform, Accounting, Tax & Banking and Entrepreneurship and contains more than 130 million documents. Content in this database also covers over 2,400 journals and magazines, several hundred news sources, thousands of ebooks, videos and company, industry and country reports.
- Business Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Business Abstracts with Full Text is a database that indexes and abstracts articles from English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere, including the leading business magazines and trade and research journals; it also includes full text of selected periodicals.
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides bibliographic and full text content, including indexing and abstracts for scholarly business journals back to 1886 and full text journal articles in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics. The database full text content includes investment research reports, industry reports, market research reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses. Sources covered by this database include Economist Intelligence Unit country reports.
- Hospitality & Tourism Complete This link opens in a new window
Indexes and abstracts articles and industry news on all areas of tourism and hospitality. Areas covered include: culinary arts; food and beverage management; hospitality law; hotel management, leisure and travel, market trends.
- International Bibliography of the Social Sciences This link opens in a new window
This database contains indexes journal articles and books in the social sciences. Subjects covered in the database include anthropology, economics, education, ethnography, political science, sociology and more. It has a broad international scope. Abstracts are available for half of all current journal articles.
Websites
- Page Society Student Case Studies Case studies from students pursuing degrees in corporate communications and PR. Teaching notes available by request. To browse all of the cases, scroll down to the Student Case Study Competition at the bottom of the page and click the dropdown.
- PRSA Silver Anvil Case Study Search Login required for full case studies, but descriptions available may be helpful for future research.
- Oxford Saïd Business School Cases available free of charge. Contact form to request cases. Some have teaching notes available.
- MIT Sloan School of Management Case Studies Some cases directly available, some by request. Some have teaching notes available. Free to educators teaching cases in the classroom.
